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Compliance Driving Log Management Push
InfoSec magazine is carrying a great article on the emerging log management market, pointing to its use in meeting compliance mandates. Marcia Savage points to the multitude of compliance mandates as a main driver of log management in enterprises. From the article . . .
Auditors are prodding companies to think about centralized log management in order to ensure control over scattered data, said Trent Henry, senior analyst at Burton Group: "So we have one place that can keep the information and have proper IT controls over the data to make sure it's not tampered with or lost or accessed by people who shouldn't, and that those policies are enforced."
Quoted in the article is Dave Shackleford, vice president at the nonprofit Center for Internet Security and a SANS instructor, who points to the PCI Data Security Standard as a huge driver of log management.
Companies are figuring out that "they already have a lot of the information that they need to get a good bit of the way towards [PCI] compliance, they just don't have the tools to take that information and do anything with it," he said.
Recently we again sponsored The SANS Institute's 2007 Log Management Survey for the third year in a row, and we saw the same momentum. The research polled more than 650 IT professionals in government, financial services, banking, manufacturing, healthcare, telecommunications, and education sectors from the North American Global 2000 (G2000).
The verdict? The G2000 continues to adopt log management and intelligence to end the 'logjam.' Turns out that despite its importance, security is not the prime motivation for log management. More than half of those surveyed reported operations management and monitoring the health of the network as the prime motivation for using log data. And, 43% indicated compliance with SOX, PCI and other mandates as the top priority. Download the Executive summary here or check out the Webcast here.
The full article is available here.
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